A solution to drivers using cellphones
Regarding mobile phone use while driving (Letters, January 25). It is astonishing the number still blatantly using mobile phones, or tablets for either talking, reading or texting messages while driving a vehicle.
One solution is taking the phone - to be collected from the police station, including a heavy fine with further indiscretions forfeiture of vehicle for 7 days, no excuses.
They have no regard for other road users nor consequences if an accident is the result of use of mobile while driving.
Don Moir
Papamoa
Tauranga is the destination
Tauranga is New Zealand's fifth largest city and largest port (by tonnage), Rotorua is an inland city Tauranga overtook in population decades ago and yet Oceania Cruises (and possibly others) continue to call their stopover here in their promotional brochures etc. as "Rotorua".
This, in my view, is an insult to our city. Perhaps Tourism BOP and/or TCC could rectify this error.
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David Holland
Papamoa
Papamoa rubbish
What a sad joke the "clean, green" New Zealand image is. The amount of rubbish in the new housing areas in Papamoa is appalling. No rubbish skips on site until the framing starts, some not even then, meanwhile the polystyrene offcuts are left to blow away.
Polystyrene never breaks down.
There's other rubbish, plastics, drink containers, packaging etc. It's in the waterways, the gardens, along fence lines, everywhere.
I just want someone who has the authority to change this, get out of your car, take a walk, look at what is happening right under our noses. Pretty damn sad.
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Debbie Osmond
Papamoa
